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KEY MESSAGES
• WFP continues to work with the Government in strengthening national and subnational systems for disaster risk management, social protection, and food systems – enabling faster and more scalable government-led responses for affected communities.
• Through technical assistance, policy support and strategic partnerships with government and development actors, WFP helps embed innovations such as anticipatory action, home-grown school feeding, rice fortification, and asset creation into government systems, ensuring sustainability and impact beyond direct assistance.
IN NUMBERS
49,840 people directly assisted in February 2026
51% Male
49% Female
318,000 people indirectly reached with government relief and WFP rice through WFP's transport support
73,400 people indirectly benefited from homegrown school feeding (HGSF) activities in the Bangsamoro Region and Luzon
OPERATIONAL CONTEXT
• Home to approximately 115 million Filipinos and one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing economies, the Philippines has made significant progress in reducing poverty and improving food security, despite the impacts of a polycrisis of climate shocks, persistent inflation, and sporadic conflict – pressures likely to intensify with the start of the crisis in the Middle East.
• Natural hazards and human-induced conflicts contribute to food and nutrition insecurity. Since 2022, the Philippines has had the highest disaster risk worldwide due to its exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards compounded with low coping capacities (2025 World Risk Report). In 2023, 17.5 million Filipinos were living below the poverty threshold. Malnutrition remains prevalent, with child stunting incidence at 23.6 percent.
• Against this backdrop, WFP’s Country Strategic Plan (CSP) 2024-2028 continues to support the Government in achieving food and nutrition security as the Philippines gears up to become an uppermiddle income country. The CSP focuses on systems strengthening to i) improve disaster risk management, ii) enhance the delivery of social protection, and iii) strengthen resilience against climate related and other shocks. WFP uses a conflictsensitive approach particularly in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM).